Rich Teer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Sven Luther wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] added to dlist, in an attempt to
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> > One of the debian mirror operators in <insert random country> can be sued by
> > Sun over the distribution of Debian GNU/OpenSolaris, and have to go to the
> > expense to go to the Sun chosen court.
>
> And how is that different to the license explictely stating that the venue
> is is Santa Clara and tough uck if you live in Outer Mongolia.
>
> More to to the point: Suppose you live in Sweden and I live in the UK.
> You author a piece of code and I decide to sue you over it. With what
> you're suggesting, we'd have no choice but to go to Santa Clara (say).
> At least with the CDDL as it currently stands, you, as the original
> author, get to chose the venue for any lawsuits. I'm betting you'd pick
> pick Sweden over Santa Clara anytime. :-)
Only the CDDL distributed by Sun used Santa Clara.
If you like to understand the problem, have a look at the star sources
and compare e.g. star.c with acltext.c
Jörg
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